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''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' is the sixth
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by American singer-songwriter
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released on August 30, 2019, by
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and
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. The album was primarily produced by Del Rey and
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, with additional contributions from
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, Andrew Watt, and longtime Del Rey collaborator
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sound consisting of
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songs and
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s and features references to various
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artists. The title of the album is a reference to painter and illustrator
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. ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' received universal acclaim.
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praised Del Rey's musical progression with the album and her refined and poetic lyricism as well as the album's production. The album debuted at number one in seven countries, including the United Kingdom, becoming Del Rey's fourth number one album in the country, and reached the top 5 in over twenty countries, including the United States, where it peaked at number three on the ''Billboard'' 200, becoming Del Rey's fourth consecutive top 5 album in the nation. Five singles were released to promote the album; "
Mariners Apartment Complex "Mariners Apartment Complex" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, released on September 12, 2018, through Polydor Records and Interscope Records, as the lead single from her sixth studio album, ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' (2019)'' ...
", "
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", "
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", "
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", and " The Greatest". Del Rey embarked on her fifth concert tour, The Norman Fucking Rockwell! Tour. It started on September 21, 2019, and ended on November 30, 2019. At the
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, it was nominated for
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, while the
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received a nomination for Song of the Year. ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' was frequently listed by numerous publications as the best album of the year, and since its release has been regarded as one of the greatest and most revered albums of the decade and of all time, with ''
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'' ranking it on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.


Background

When in attendance at the
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, Del Rey confirmed in an interview that she had begun work on her next album. She revealed the title of one song, "Bartender", saying that she did not know if it would make the album's tracklist. The album was recorded under the working title ''Bird World'' in its earlier stages of developement. In September 2018, Del Rey premiered the album's second single, "
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", in
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's
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show, and joined for an interview where she confirmed that the album's title and its title track would be ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!''. She revealed that the album was nearly complete having recorded eleven tracks for it. It was later reported that the album was scheduled for an early 2019 release. In October 2018, Del Rey performed alongside
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, whith whom she had collaborated on the record, at an
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event, where she premiered the song "How to Disappear". On December 31, 2018, Del Rey teased the song "Happiness Is a Butterfly" on social media. A snippet of the album's title track was shared by Del Rey in June 2019. In July 2019, Del Rey performed at the FIB Benicàssim Festival, where she revealed that the album would be released the following month.


Composition

''FLOOD Magazine'' described the album's sound as "a mellow
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" and noted Del Rey's improved lyrics tackle larger themes than her previous work. According to critics, ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' features "
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jams" and piano-based ballads. ''
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'' described the record as featuring "
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lullabies, tales of complicated, consuming romantic love, and overt odes to the tarnished dream of
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." It has been characterised as a " pop classic", as well as embodying
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, and existing somewhere between the desert rock and "minimalist"
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of Del Rey's previous efforts. The album features a strong influence from 1970s
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.
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of ''
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'' noted that "strings and synth washes soundtrack multiple love songs", and also noted several classic rock references throughout the album, including
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's "
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",
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, and
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's ''
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''.
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of ''Rolling Stone'' noted the album's "
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'70s soft-rock fantasies", including references to
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and
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. ''No Ripcord'' described ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' as "a remarkably sharp pop record that retains her fascination with
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iconography and the rosey simplicity of a post-war America where classic rock and blue jeans ruled and takes them to much deeper places".


Release and promotion

The album's cover art, release date, and track listing were announced by Del Rey on July 31, 2019. The cover art features Del Rey and Duke Nicholson—actor
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's grandson—posing on a sailboat, with the album title and Del Rey's initials written in a
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-inspired style. The photo was taken by Del Rey's sister Chuck Grant. The following day, Del Rey released an album trailer. On August 2,
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announced an exclusive vinyl of the album featuring an alternative album artwork, also photographed by Chuck Grant. Throughout 2018, Del Rey shared snippets via social media of several songs intended for the album, including "Happiness Is a Butterfly", "How to Disappear", and "Cinnamon Girl". She performed "How to Disappear" on October 29 at the
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, debuting the full song for the first time. A trailer for the album was released on August 1, 2019. It features three of the album's singles—a cover of Sublime's "
Doin' Time "Doin' Time" is a song by the American band Sublime for their self-titled third album. The lyrics tell of a cheating girlfriend, whose infidelities and poor treatment of her lover makes him feel like he is in prison. It was released as a singl ...
", "
Mariners Apartment Complex "Mariners Apartment Complex" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, released on September 12, 2018, through Polydor Records and Interscope Records, as the lead single from her sixth studio album, ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' (2019)'' ...
", and "
Venice Bitch "Venice Bitch" is a song by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey. It was released on September 18, 2018, through Polydor and Interscope Records, as the second single from her sixth studio album, ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' (2019). The song ...
"—as well as the title track. On August 22, 2019, " Fuck It I Love You" and " The Greatest" were released as promotional singles, along with a double music video. The music video runs at 9:19 minutes long, with the same shoot as the album trailer.


Singles

"
Mariners Apartment Complex "Mariners Apartment Complex" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, released on September 12, 2018, through Polydor Records and Interscope Records, as the lead single from her sixth studio album, ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' (2019)'' ...
" was released as the album's first single on September 12, 2018. The following week, on September 18, Del Rey released the second single, "Venice Bitch" and revealed the album title. "
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" followed as the third single on January 9, 2019. Del Rey released a cover of Sublime's "Doin' Time" on May 17, 2019, for a documentary about the band; its music video was released on August 29, 2019, one day before the release of ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' A double music video for " Fuck It I Love You" and " The Greatest" was released on August 22, 2019; " The Greatest" was later released as the album's fifth single on September 13, 2019, in Italy.


Tour

On August 1, 2019, Del Rey announced two legs of a tour in promotion of ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!''. The first leg took place in North America in the fall of 2019 and the second in Europe in early 2020. The European leg of the tour was subsequently cancelled due to illness.


Film

On December 20, 2019, Del Rey released a 14-minute-long short film featuring the songs "Norman Fucking Rockwell", "Bartender", and "Happiness is a Butterfly". The film was directed by Chuck Grant and premiered on YouTube.


Critical reception

''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' received widespread acclaim from
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and is also the most critically acclaimed studio album of Del Rey's career to date. At
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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an
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score of 87 based on 28 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Jenn Pelly of ''
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'' wrote that the album "establishes el Reyas one of America’s greatest living songwriters". In his review for ''Rolling Stone'',
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wrote "the long-awaited ''Norman Fucking Rockwell'' is even more massive and majestic than everyone hoped it would be. Lana turns her fifth and finest album into a tour of sordid American dreams, going deep cover in all our nation's most twisted fantasies of glamour and danger." He concluded that Del Rey "has finally made her pop classic." In a five-star review for ''
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'', Rhian Daly called the album "nothing short of stunning." Kristel Jax of ''
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'' wrote "Del Rey has shifted her kitschy patriotic fixation, dropping her flag-draped persona and making peace with a more complex, dystopian reality", also giving the album five stars. For ''
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'', Sal Cinquemani described the album as "a heady collection of
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and piano dirges that pour into each other and rarely shift tempo from track to track" as well as "frank assessments of the psychic effects of a world spiraling into chaos." Also writing positively, Alexandra Pollard of ''
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'' wrote "The album is sultry and soporific, sitting somewhere between the minimalist
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of Del Rey’s early days, and the scuzzy desert rock she has toyed with over the years," and concluded that "This is Del Rey at her most assertive." In his 'premature evaluation' for ''
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'', Tom Breihan wrote that the album is "a beautiful opus for a new dark age — a fond look back at the world we just wrecked", calling it "yoga music for the apocalypse." In a more mixed review,
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of ''
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'' described the album as "an alternately beguiling and frustrating experience", concluding that despite Del Rey's evident talent, "it's hard not to wish that she would broaden her perspective, adopt a different persona, shake things up a little."
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of ''
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'' similarly wrote that the album "reveals Del Rey to be something of a one trick pony, but what a beautiful trick it is."


Accolades

In 2021, ''Pitchfork'' readers voted ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' the 17th-greatest album overall, and the best album by a female artist, of the previous 25 years.


Year-end lists

The album was placed in numerous year-end lists of 2019, topping those by many publications. According to Metacritic, it was the most named album in the year-end rankings of 2019 albums by critics.


Decade-end and All-Time lists


Commercial performance

''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' debuted at number three on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, earning 104,000
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s (including 66,000 copies in pure album sales) in its first week, becoming Del Rey's sixth US top ten album on the chart. In its second week, the album dropped to number nine, earning an additional 35,000 units. In the United Kingdom, ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!'' debuted at number one on the
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, selling 31,539 copies, becoming her best sales week in the country since ''Ultraviolence'' (her following album, ''
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'', would open up with higher weekly sales than ''Norman Fucking Rockwell!''). The album became Lana Del Rey's fourth number one album in the UK, tying
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as the female artist with the most solo number one albums in the UK during the 2010s. In France, the album sold 8,000 copies in its first week, 800 more than ''Lust for Life'''s first week.


Track listing

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, except “Mariners Apartment Complex”, “Venice Bitch”, “Cinnamon Girl” and “The Next Best American Record” which are stylized in
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, and “Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have – but I Have It” in
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.


Credits and personnel

Technical * Laura Sisk – recording engineering , mixing *
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– recording engineering , mixing * Paul LaMalfa – recording engineering , mixing *
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– recording engineering * Dean Reid – recording engineering , mixing * Kieron Menzies – recording engineering , mixing * Trevor Yasuda – recording engineering * Jon Sher – assistant recording engineering * Derrick Stockwell – assistant recording engineering * Greg Eliason – assistant recording engineering * Ben Fletcher – assistant recording engineering * Billy Cumella – assistant recording engineering * John Rooney – assistant recording engineering * Tate McDowell – assistant recording engineering * John Rooney – assistant recording engineering * Nicolas Jodoin – assistant recording engineering * Travis Pavur – assistant recording engineering * John Christopher Fee – assistant recording engineering * Chris Rockwell – assistant recording engineering * Ryan Hendrickson - assistant recording engineering * Şerban Ghenea – mixing * John Hanes – mix engineering * Andrew Watt – mixing *
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– mastering * Will Quinnell – assistant mastering engineering * Dave Kutch – mastering Musicians *
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– vocals, horns * Jack Antonoff – keyboards , piano , drums , programming , acoustic guitar , electric guitar , synthesizers , percussion , vibraphone * Evan Smith – saxophone , flute * Phillip Peterson – baritone , cello , flugelhorn * Victoria Parker – violin * Laura Sisk – additional programming *
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- guitar *
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- drums * Mikey Freedom Hart – keyboards ,
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, piano , drums , programming * Andrew Watt – instrumentation , programming , guitar * Eric Wilson – bass guitar *
Josh Freese Joshua Ryan Freese (born December 25, 1972) is an American session drummer. He is the son of tuba soloist Stan Freese and the older brother of musician Jason Freese. He is a member of the Vandals (since 1989) and Devo (since 1996), having forme ...
– drums *
Bud Gaugh Floyd I. "Bud" Gaugh IV (born October 2, 1967) is an American drummer who played in the bands Sublime (1988–1996), Long Beach Dub Allstars (1997–2002), Eyes Adrift (2002–2003), Volcano (2004), and Sublime with Rome (2009–2011), as well ...
– drums * Gale Levant – harp * Woozy Biff – harp *
Zachary Dawes Zachary Edwin Dawes (born July 2, 1985) is an American musician, producer, engineer, and technician, best known as the bassist for the bands Mini Mansions and The Last Shadow Puppets. He has also made contributions to music by Brian Wilson, La ...
– piano *
Loren Humphrey Guards are an American three piece rock band. They consist of Richie Follin, Loren Humphrey, and Kaylie Church. They released their debut album, ''In Guards We Trust'', in February 2013. History 2010: Formation Guards formed in New York City w ...
– drums * Darren Weiss – drums * Mike Riddleberger – drums * Sean Hutchinson – drums * Evan Weiss – guitar * Benji Lysaght – guitar *
Tyler Parkford Tyler Parkford is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist and vocalist for Los Angeles-based band, Mini Mansions. He is also one half of the lounge pop duo Mister Goodnite, and a touring member of the British indie rock band Arctic ...
Hammond B3 Hammond may refer to: People * Hammond Innes (1913–1998), English novelist * Hammond (surname) * Justice Hammond (disambiguation) Places Antarctica * Hammond Glacier, Antarctica Australia *Hammond, South Australia, a small settlement in South ...
* Dean Reid – bass guitar , keyboards , guitar , FX , programming * Kieron Menzies – Mellotron , drums , FX , programming *
Rick Nowels Richard Wright Nowels Jr. is an American songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and arranger. He has co-written and co-produced over 90 hit singles with multiple artistsZac Rae Zac Rae is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded two studio albums and two EPs. Rae is a former member of Alanis Morissette' ...
– keyboards * David Levita – guitar


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See also

* List of number-one albums of 2019 (Scotland) *
List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 2010s The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Friday to Thursday in the United Kingdom; , there had been 266 number-one albums during the 2010s, by 76 artists. The Official Charts Company (OCC) defines an "album" as be ...


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